Entries not meeting submission requirements as above will not be eligible.

Writers must be individual financial members of the SA Writers Centre.

Manuscripts must be submitted during the four week period. No early or late entries will be accepted.

You can only submit one manuscript (or version of) during the submission period.

During the submission period no individual writers may contact the SA Writers Centre, the Publisher or Hachette Australia to seek information about the progress of their submission.

Manuscripts submitted for consideration in the SAHMP must be:

complete

not a first draft (please edit thoroughly)

fiction, non fiction or young adult fiction (sorry no poetry, children’s books or other are eligible).

Selection of the manuscript will be at the discretion of the Publisher and no discussion shall be entered into by the unsuccessful applicants.

Selection of a manuscript for the SAHMP is not a guarantee of publication.

Hachette reserves the right to consider the selected manuscript for publication within twelve weeks of delivery of a new draft of the manuscript, but gives no guarantee of publication.

The work must not be previously published in any format.

The work must not be under consideration by another publisher.

Writers who are not selected for a mentorship are eligible to resubmit the same work in following years.

All submissions must be submitted electronically.

The form of the mentorship:

The Publisher will work with the selected writer.

The exact form of the mentorship will vary according to the needs of the writer and the manuscript, but will include structural notes provided by the Publisher and telephone or Skype calls as appropriate to a maximum of five phone calls, as well as correspondence by email.

The mentorship will conclude either when the writer feels that they do not need further assistance or the Publisher feels that they are unable to be of further assistance, with either party to be advised in writing of the end of the mentorship.

The Publisher will not be available to give advice to the selected writer after the conclusion of the mentorship, unless so agreed between the Publisher and the writer.

The Publisher will not discuss the content of the mentorship with anyone other than the selected writer.

About Sophie:Sophie Hamley has worked in the print and online publishing industries as a bookseller, editor, writer, content producer, web and interactive TV producer. She was a literary agent from 2006 until late 2014, during which time she was President of the Australian Literary Agents’ Association and a member of the Book Industry Collaborative Council. She now works as a publisher with her wonderful colleagues at Hachette Australia.

After the success of last year’s Adelaide Pitch Conference – where out of the 43 attendees, 27 people were asked by major Australian publishers to submit their manuscript (most to more than one publisher) – we will be running it again towards the end of 2016.But don’t leave it until the last minute – begin your preparation now! Below you will find workshops that will help you perfect your manuscript so it can be at its best when the time comes.If you would like to be notified of details when released, please sign up here: Pitch Conference. [EVENT_ESPRESSO_CATEGORY event_category_id="pitch-conference-prep-1459914048"]

Mentorship Application Form

You will also need to identify at least one (maximum of three) goals for your mentorship and agree to the full terms and conditions.

Process

SA Writers Centre will connect you with a mentor with four weeks of application. Mentorship fees must be paid in advance in full to the Centre.

What to expect

Mentorship hours are billed for actual time spent, in 15 minute (minimum) increments. This includes all contact with the mentee including phone/Skype/IM conversations, emails, reading and feedback time and face to face meetings.Note this means that if you send four emails to your mentor, that will equate to one hour of mentorship time.The mentor and mentee will develop a shared timetable and plan, including identified goals, and will keep a weekly record that tracks progress towards goals and time spent by the mentor.Any questions or difficulties will be resolved by the SA Writers Centre.

Rates

Mentorships are offered in five hour blocks.5 hours $55010 hours $88020 hours $1650You can add additional blocks upon completion of initial blocks if you and your mentor agree that this would be beneficial for your work.[gravityform id="15" title="true" description="true"]

Staff

Sarah Tooth

Director

Sarah has worked in the arts for more than 20 years, as a writer, community arts worker, screen producer, arts manager, programmer and creative producer, working for organisations as diverse as Brown’s Mart Community Arts, the ABC’s international television service (Australia Network), and the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. She sits on a number of arts industry and tertiary advisory committees, including the Advisory Committee of Adelaide Writers Week. She is the recipient of a 2014 Australia Council Artistic Leadership Grant to spend time with writers and the literary sector in Singapore and Malaysia.

Bethany Clark

Program Manager

Bethany Clark is a public relations and communications consultant with extensive experience within the Australian publishing landscape as a program manager, editor, publicist, tour manager and sherpa. She is passionate about promoting Australian literature and works with authors, publishers, booksellers, libraries, writing centres and national reading and literacy organisations to promote their work, build their profiles and develop their readerships.

Bethany has a degree in Communications Media Management and is currently juggling a Masters in Public Relations and Writing and Literature with much more fun things like producing the Arts Breakfast show on Radio Adelaide and chatting to authors for Writers Radio.

Simone Corletto

Communications Officer

Simone Corletto is a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Creative Arts Honours (Creative Writing) from Flinders University. She also holds a Bachelor of Science (Animal Science) from The University of Adelaide. She’s written freelance for What Degree? What University?, RiAus, Heckler, Trev and Rip it Up. She has written for and edited Empire Times, and is currently one of the co-directors of Speakeasy Flinders.

She has also written for and edited the upcoming anthology CRUSH, published by Midnight Sun in 2017.

Between all that, she writes YA feminist science fiction and dystopias, and stories about angsty teenage Superheroes.

Ali Cobby Eckermann

Project Officer

Ali’s first collection little bit long time was written in the desert and launched her literary career in 2009. Her works have been published in various languages, and she has travelled widely to showcase Aboriginal poetry overseas. In 2013 Ali toured Ireland as Australian Poetry’s Ambassador, won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Book Of The Year (NSW) for Ruby Moonlight, a massacre verse novel. She was the inaugural recipient of the Tungkunungka Pintyanthi Fellowship at Adelaide Writers’ Week, and is the first Aboriginal Australian author invited to attend the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2014. Her memoir Too Afraid To Cry was launched in New Delhi India in 2015, on her way to Jaipur Literature Festival. In 2016 Ali presented a Keynote at the Active Aesthetics conference in Berkeley California. She regularly appears in the SA Writers Centre program, as well as appearing as a feature writer at Pirrku Warrapinna as part of the TARNANTHI Festival.

Matthew Cropley

Program Assistant

Matthew holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Screen) from Flinders University, and worked as a freelance filmmaker before settling on his passion for writing.

Matthew’s fiction has been published in ‘Dimension6’ and ‘Sword and Sorcery Magazine’, he’s received three Honourable Mentions in the Writers of the Future contest, and he’s an article writer, reviewer and first reader for ‘Grimdark Magazine’. He also writes for ‘bestfantasybooks.com’ and creates adventure modules for ‘Heroes’ Tears’, an upcoming tabletop role playing game.

He wrote and directed his debut stage-work, a dramatic play titled ‘Linger’, in the 2017 Adelaide Fringe festival, and was awarded a Certificate of Commendation for the stage play by the Flinders University Young Playwrights Award.

He’s somewhat allergic to reality and so escapes into fiction more often than is probably healthy.

Cat Campbell

Admin and Membership Co-ordinator

Cat attended the University of Adelaide and Centre for the Performing Arts studying theatre, film and acting.

Film production work has included working with Rolf de Heer at Hendon Studios; The Matrix sequels at Fox Studios, Sydney, and most recently Foxtel/Matchbox Picture’s ‘Deadline Gallipoli’ at Adelaide Studios.

Cat has also worked in administration, travel coordination, publicity and marketing at Rising Sun Pictures; Adelaide Festival of Arts; Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Tutti Arts Inc., Sydney Opera House and Australian Centre for the Moving Image.